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Discover Sidelines

We are so pleased to introduce our Discover Sidelines program, through which we will bring you original book-centric gift items that will appeal to your customers. We currently have three new lines that you should know about.

7321 Designs Vintage Journals — Available in four styles that are inspired by literary classics and the magic of travel, the journals come in five sizes, 120 pages each of blank, lined, or grid pages. Wrapped in covers made from a pleasing piqué-textured paper, the softcover journals have beautiful stitched bindings in contrasting thread colors. With suggested list prices of $5-$15, they offer you and your customers an undeniable value.
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Onyx+Green — These notebooks, pens, and pencils are made from mostly natural and recycled materials, giving your stationery assortment an environmentally friendly option. The paper in the notebooks are made from crushed stone or sugar cane and must be touched to be believed. The pen and pencil casings are made from bamboo.
» View the Brochure (PDF) | View the Price List (Excel)

How to Order — You may order the items yourself via TS 360 or your POS system or contact your sales rep, who will be happy to place your order for you.

Of course, we offer many, many more sidelines than just these three lines. We invite you to browse our most comprehensive assortment of sidelines on TS 360.

UP Close: University Presses

Our new Fall 2016 UP Close catalog presents regional titles available from university presses and independent presses—many available at our standard trade book discount. Because the catalog is divided into five regions (East, South, West, Mountains & Plains, Heartland), it's easy for you to make selections that offer your customers books showing what your state and region have to offer include cooking, history, sports, hometown heroes, and travel destinations.

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Compiled by Baker & Taylor's Julie Isgrigg

I started to put together a list of books that I thought would make special gifts in the upcoming holiday season when I was struck by how many new books were about clever and interesting and influential women. Here's that list, instead. Maybe it's coincidence that the publication schedule for these stories of scientists and businesswomen and mathematicians and the Notorious RBG aligns with the candidacy of who could be our country's first female president, but the timing seems notable. As for the accomplishments of the women in the books, those are timeless. Here they all are, in case your store needs a new endcap theme or front-table display.

A picture book! About the Notorious RBG! The tenet that disagreeing doesn't make you disagreeable comes through in this story of the Supreme Court justice's life through cases where she provided notable dissents.

My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Available NowHardcoverISBN 9781501145247List Price: $30.00

For grownup readers, this collection of writings from the Supreme Court personality includes her thoughts on topics both personal and professional. Her biographers provide contextual introductions to each chapter.

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Available NowHardcoverISBN 9781607749769List Price: $16.99

This attractive gift book profiles 50 women ancient and modern who have made lasting contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math. Accompanying portraits of each woman along with infographics add visual appeal to the book.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Available NowHardcoverISBN 9780062363596List Price: $27.99

Using interviews, letters, and other archival materials, Margot Lee Shetterly tells the stories of five black women -- human computers, as they were called -- who used their brains, along with pencil, paper, rulers, and adding machines to solve the mathematical problems that eventually launched rockets.

The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

Available October 18HardcoverISBN 9781492637257List Price: $25.99

The only fiction selection in this list explores the story of Albert Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.

Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl

Available NowHardcoverISBN 9780399578861List Price: $15.99

The team who created Rad Women A-Z now offer another collection of 40 remarkable women who have lived boldly and left an indelible mark on the world.

In this collection, another 25 women who pushed against confining boundaries are examined. They range from a Muslim spy whom the Nazis considered "highly dangerous" to a Chinese woman who revolutionized the textile industry in her country.

Miss Paul and the President by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Nancy Zhang

Available NowHardcoverISBN 9781101937204List Price: $17.99

In another picture book entry in this list, readers young and old can enjoy the tenacity of Alice Paul, a woman who worked to organize and push for women's suffrage -- even if it meant taking her fight all the way to the President of the United States.

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

Available October 18HardcoverISBN 9781250048592List Price: $27.99

This entry is not triumphant, but the grit and resolve shown by the women who lived in occupied Paris -- scrabbling to survive and faced with life-or-death decisions at nearly every turn -- speaks to another aspect of women's strength.

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney

Available NowHardcoverISBN 9781579655976List Price: $35.00

Grace Bonney, the founder of Design*Sponge, interviews 100 notable creative women from all backgrounds who started successful businesses.

Based on the beautiful and beloved Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this lovely book pays homage to 27 women who have made a difference by using striking art and design to illuminate the biographies of each.

Our team has been out visiting with you all at the regional bookseller associations' fall tradeshows. They've been sending reports and photos back from each show – and holding drawings for scholarships to Children's Institute and more. Here are postcards from the first two shows, SIBA and NEIBA.

SIBA - September 16-18 in Savannah, Georgia

We sent a small cadre of folks to represent Baker & Taylor at SIBA this year. Here, Rob Van Dorselaer and Gary Brooks, our sales reps who cover the South, grin behind our booth.

Our congratulations go to G. J. Ford Bookshop, in Saint Simons Island, Georgia, who won our scholarship to attend the ABC Children's Institute in spring 2017. And congratulations, too, to The Country Bookshop, from Southern Pines, North Carolina, who won a fully loaded corrugate display of coloring books courtesy of Fox Chapel.

NEIBA - September 20-22 in Providence, Rhode Island

Our team of Karen Corvello, Denise Chiodo, Jason Rice, and Julie Isgrigg spent several days in Providence representing Baker & Taylor there. We were honored to have sponsored the annual banquet for the New England Book Awards.

We were showcasing some new items from Onyx+Green, which creates environmentally friendly notebooks using crushed stone and sugar cane, in addition to pens made from bamboo. The crushed-stone paper is really something you have to try to believe; the texture is uncommonly smooth. Here are some of the amusing notes left by booksellers in our tester notebook.

Congratulations go to Buttonwood Books and Toys in Cohasset, Massachusetts, who won our scholarship to attend the Children's Institute. They're quite excited, as they should be.

Alice Hutchinson and another bookseller from Byrd's Books won the Fox Chapel coloring book display. Congratulations!

Lorraine Ferry, our merchandising manager who covers university presses, returns with a new set of picks you should look at for your stores. The books, which publish from university presses near and far, cover shipwrecks, map New York City in an all-new way, and define whimsical words created by the beloved Roald Dahl, among other subjects.

Selected by Baker & Taylor's Lorraine Ferry

Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary

Just in time for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth on September 13, 1916, comes this whimsical dictionary that gives definitions for snozzcumber, humplecrimp, wraprascal and a total of 8,000 Dahlisms.

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Available October 19University of California PressPaperbackISBN 9780520285958List Price: $29.95

Rebecca Solnit's New York addition to her bestselling social atlases, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, conveys experiences of New York City through 26 imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to urbanists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey.

Playing Through: Modern Golf's Most Iconic Players and Moments by Jim Moriarty

Available October 1University of Nebraska PressHardcoverISBN 9780803278653List Price: $34.95

This collection of essays on iconic players and moments by Jim Moriarity, a former contributing writer and photographer for Golf Digest and contributing writer for Golf World magazine and current freelance golf writer, will be an enjoyable read for any fan of professional golf.

Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea by Michael Schumacher

A gripping Great Lakes maritime tale from Michael Schumacher, the author of Mighty Fitz about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and November's Fury, which told the story of the Great Lakes hurricane of 1913. The author is a consummate storyteller whose works can be enjoyed even by those readers who have never seen one of the Great Lakes.

Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology of Travel Writing Through the Centuries edited by Deborah Manley

Available NowThe American University in Cairo PressHardcoverISBN 9789774167874List Price: $18.95

This collection of writings dating from the 1700s to the present by female travelers to Egypt is the perfect gift book for avid readers with wanderlust.

We almost always have ongoing promotions that offer your store extra discounts on books and sidelines.

We're currently offering some of our biggest offers of the year. Save on ALL regional holiday catalog titles, selected journals, plush, coloring books, and more. Stock up your stores and save in the process.

Indie Next
Sign up to participate in the ABA's Indie Next program through us and you'll receive an extra discount on orders of the upcoming month's title selections, plus a 6-month supply of Indie Next stickers for your store. We'll email you the title lists and accompanying shelf talkers as an added service. Contact your sales rep to sign up.

Books with Attitude
We are pleased to offer an auto-ship program designed to add a little color to your store's assortment. Every eight weeks you'll receive a new selection of titles containing humor, pop culture, politics, and more that offer a fresh perspective on our world. Learn more and sign up.

NPR: Discover Songs
We have partnered with NPR to offer you a branded merchandising program for music. Every six weeks you'll receive six unique music titles selected by experts at Baker & Taylor and NPR that inspire discovery. View the brochure for complete details.